I'm wondering. we have a run of bad luck and people leave for greener pastures. Our hashrate settles down and our luck starts improving. People see our luck improve and come back. Gradually increasing hashrate continues to feed good luck. Eventually, hashrate gets as big as it is going to get. Luck starts to equalize. People consider a little bad luck to be an indicator and start moving away. Gradually decreasing hashrate manifests the appearance of a run of bad luck until we are back to the normal lower rate. Luck eventually stabilizes and repeat.

I'm wondering. we have a run of bad luck and people leave for greener pastures. Our hashrate settles down and our luck starts improving. People see our luck improve and come back. Gradually increasing hashrate continues to feed good luck. Eventually, hashrate gets as big as it is going to get. Luck starts to equalize. People consider a little bad luck to be an indicator and start moving away. Gradually decreasing hashrate manifests the appearance of a run of bad luck until we are back to the normal lower rate. Luck eventually stabilizes and repeat.

I'm wondering about setting up my farm with my new raspberry and it wont connect to the server... (first time it worked for few minutes, then after using screen for better overview the problem occurred)

Anybody noticed any reduction of their total rewards on a regular basis? I thought it has been my imagination. I usually see it drop about .01 BTC every now and then so I thought that's just normal. However, this time around, my total rewards dropped at least .02 BTC from about .89+ to .87+. I work very hard and invested a lot just to get those bitcoin cents.

Slush, what's going on. Is somebody milking my rewards every now and then hoping that I would not notice it?

Anybody noticed any reduction of their rewards on a regular basis? I thought it has been my imagination. I usually see it drop about .01 BTC every now and then so I thought that's just normal. However, this time around, my total rewards dropped at least .02 BTC from about .89+ to .87+. I work very hard and invested a lot just to get those bitcoin cents.

Slush, what's going on. Is somebody milking my rewards every now and then hoping that I would not notice it?

If new people join slush, it lowers all the users rewards. It was 20701.827 Ghash/s the other day, now it's 31701.827 Ghash/s...The numbers you provided are inline with the growth of the pool.

Fun fact: the next diff jump will be around 30% (all time high growth) as it seems now, some of the new hash power joins slush so expect the rewards to continue degrading.

Anybody noticed any reduction of their rewards on a regular basis? I thought it has been my imagination. I usually see it drop about .01 BTC every now and then so I thought that's just normal. However, this time around, my total rewards dropped at least .02 BTC from about .89+ to .87+. I work very hard and invested a lot just to get those bitcoin cents.

Slush, what's going on. Is somebody milking my rewards every now and then hoping that I would not notice it?

If new people join slush, it lowers all the users rewards. It was 20701.827 Ghash/s the other day, now it's 31701.827 Ghash/s...The numbers you provided are inline with the growth of the pool.

Fun fact: the next diff jump will be around 30% (all time high growth) as it seems now, some of the new hash power joins slush so expect the rewards to continue degrading.

If this makes you nervous you shouldn't have invested in mining.

Thanks for your input. However, I don't think you understand my situation. I'm talking about the amount that I already earned which registers under my "Total Rewards". Like everybody else in the pool, I track it. I'm not talking about variance here. Why would it drop a cent or two every now and then when I already earned it? Please don't give me that sermon about not investing if it makes me nervous. That's getting too old.

I'm talking about the amount that I already earned which registers under my "Total Rewards". ... Why would it drop a cent or two every now and then when I already earned it?

"Total Rewards" is not the same as 'already earned reward' - it is sum of the 'Confirmed Reward' (which is what you have earned and should look for) and 'Unconfirmed reward' which is an expectation and varies a lot with the time.